# Staff Software Engineer, DevPlatform

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,000-$303,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to contribute to its innovative developer platform.

In this pivotal role, you will develop and maintain the cutting-edge backend for the developer platform, collaborating with colleagues to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions.

**What You'll Be Working On**

- Building a highly available, reliable, low-latency, and internet-scale platform.

- Creating and driving the Storage as a Service strategy.

- Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.

- Fostering a collaborative and supportive team with a strong sense of ownership.

**Who You Might Be**

- 7+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, developer tools, or app platforms.

- Technical leader with experience in large-scale projects and day-to-day troubleshooting.

- Proficiency in Go, Typescript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes.

- Experience mentoring and coaching other engineers, and leading by example with strong software engineering best practices.

- Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software.

- Entrepreneurial spirit with a bias towards action in fast-paced environments.

- Excellent communication skills for collaboration in a fully-remote environment.

**Responsibilities**

- Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure of the developer platform.

- Develop new features for external developers, such as SQL db as a service.

- Contribute to the entire development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.

- Review code and design documents, provide feedback on product specifications and mocks, and contribute to team strategy.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

- 401k with Employer Match

- Global Benefit programs for lifestyle support

- Family Planning Support

- Gender-Affirming Care

- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

- Generous Paid Parental Leave

The base salary range for this position is: $217,000-$303,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Typescript
- Redis
- distributed SQL
- Kubernetes
- backend
- infrastructure
- developer tools
- app platforms

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